Masters of deception : Escher, Dalí & the artists of optical illusion
Häftad bok. New York : Sterling Pub. Co. 2004. 320 sidor.
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Optical illusions are beautiful works of art that ingeniously mislead our visual and perceptual senses. Now the great illusions by Escher, Dali, Gonsalves, Muniz, and other top artists of the genre can be found in one beautiful volume.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781402751011
- Titel
- Masters of deception : Escher, Dalí & the artists of optical illusion
- Författare
- Seckel, Al - Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Förlag
- New York : Sterling Pub. Co
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author Douglas R. Hofstadter make this 320-page, breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made from seashells. These dazzling and often playful artistic creations manipulate perspective so cleverly that they simply outwit our brains: we can't just take a quick glance and turn away. They compel us to look once, twice, and over and over again, as we try to figure out exactly how the delightful trickery manages to fool our perceptions so completely. Of course, first and foremost, every piece is beautiful on the surface, but each one offers us so much more. Some, including Sandro del Prete's charming "Window Gazing," construct illusionary worlds where normal conceptions of up, down, forward, and back simply have no meaning anymore. Others, such as Jos De Mey's sly "Ceci n'est pas un Magritte," create visual puns on earlier work. From Escher's famous and elaborate "Waterfall" to Shigeo Fukuda's "Mary Poppins," where a heap of bottles, glasses, shakers, and openers somehow turn into the image of a Belle Epoque woman when the spotlight hits them, these works of genius will provide endless enjoyment and food for thought. Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-312) and index.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), composite portraits -- Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), visual surprise -- Sandro Del-Prete (1937- ), a change of perspective -- Jos de Mey (1928- ), paradoxical worlds -- M.C. Escher (1898-1972), master of mind and soul -- Shigeo Fukuda (1932- ), visual scandal -- Rob Gonsalves (1959- ), magic realism -- Mathieu Hamaekers (1954- ), optical constructivism -- Scott Kim (1955- ), ambigrams -- Akiyoshi Kitaoka (1961- ), illusion op art -- Ken Knowlton (1931- ), mosaic portraits -- Guido Moretti (1947- ), transforming sculptures -- Vik Muniz (1961- ), a change of medium -- Octavio Ocampo (1943- ), metamorphic art -- István Orosz (1951- ), anamorphoses -- John Pugh (1957- ), trompe l'oeil -- Oscar Reutersvärd (1915-2001), impossible figures -- Roger Shepard (1929- ), mind sights -- Dick Termes (1941- ), spherical worlds -- Rex Whistler (1905-1944), inversions.
